OUTSIDE OF SOCIETY - THAT'S WHERE I WANT TO BE

June 8th, 2007

Who's the bane of YOUR existence? Surely there's someone who pisses you off in such a huge way that it merits flogging, at least. 'Round here, we call that person a RAT BASTARD. Who is the person you most want to rip a new asshole for whatever reason? Go ahead - now's your chance to put them on blast. Start commenting, and have fun gettin' your hate on - and out. IP logging is off and anonymous commenters WERE welcome, but I've had to disable it since I've gotten six tons of bullshit spam comments lately. Sorry about that.

The Surgeon General of the United States is supposed to be “America’s chief health educator.” But President Bush’s nominee, James W. Holsinger, has repeatedlyespoused medically-inaccurate homophobic positions that undermine his credibility to be the next Surgeon General.

But even a decade later, Holsinger remained out of the mainstream. In 2000, he helped found the Hope Springs Community Church, which takes the scientifically-rejected position that sexual orientation is a “lifestyle” choice. According to the church’s pastor, Rev. David Calhoun, the church helps people “walk out” of homosexuality through conversion therapy. By 2000, major medical associations had already denounced such “treatment”:

American Psychiatric Association: [T]he American Psychiatric Association opposes any psychiatric treatment, such as “reparative” or “conversion” therapy which is based upon the assumption that homosexuality per se is a mental disorder or based upon a prior assumption that the patient should change his/her homosexual orientation. [1998]

American Psychological Association: In 1990, the American Psychological Association stated that scientific evidence does not show that conversion therapy works and that it can do more harm than good. [1997]

American Medical Association: [A]version therapy (a behavioral or medical intervention which pairs unwanted behavior, in this case, homosexual behavior, with unpleasant sensations or aversive consequences) is no longer recommended for gay men and lesbians. [1994]

On the one hand, I'm wondering what Mary Cheney, her partner Heather Poe, and her parents think about this. On the one hand, I'm wondering who gives a fuck what Mary Cheney, her partner Heather Poe, and her parents think about this.

SELMER, Tennessee (AP) -- A woman who killed her preacher husband with a shotgun blast to the back as he lay in bed was sentenced Friday to three years in prison, but she may end up serving only 60 days in a mental hospital.

Mary Winkler must serve 210 days, or about seven months, of her sentence before she can be released on probation, but she gets credit for the five months she has already spent in jail, Judge Weber McCraw said.

That leaves only two months, and McCraw said up to 60 days of the sentence could be served in a facility where she could receive mental health treatment. That means Winkler may not serve any significant time in prison.

Paris Hilton gets 45 days for probation violation - this cunt murders her husband in cold blood, and gets less than a year? And her charges that he beat her up and made her watch porn and forced sex? Three baby girls, ages 9, 7 and 2 are now going to have to live under the scrutiny of this entire horror, and it was all preventable if she would have just left him. If it's that bad, FUCKING GET YOUR KIDS, GO TO THE COPS, AND LEAVE.

She had a choice. Sorry if that's too harsh, but deal with it. He didn't threaten to kill her or her kids, so the choice was hers.

What a fucking sad, sad joke the criminal justice system is in this case.